You think I look like a teletubby?
BEN ELTONI exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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I loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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